Clemson Women’s Tennis Team Falls To North Carolina In ACC Semifinals

April 19, 2003

RALEIGH, NC – The 16th-ranked Clemson women’s tennis team fell to #11 North Carolina by a score of 4-0 on Saturday in the semifinals of the 2003 ACC Championship at the Millbrook Tennis Center in Raleigh, NC. The Tigers fall to 18-5 overall with the loss, while the Tar Heels improve to 17-7.

North Carolina won the doubles point with victories at flight one and three singles. At flight one, the Tigers’ 27th-ranked duo of Julie Coin and Laurence Jayet lost an 8-3 decision to North Carolina’s #16 Kendall Cline and Aniela Mojzis. Clemson’s number two doubles team of Daniela Alvarez and Alix Lacelarie defeated the Tar Heels’ Lee Bairos and Marlene Mejia by a score of 8-1. At number three doubles, Anna Dolinska and Richele LeSaldo of Clemson fell to North Carolina’s Kendrick Bunn and Kate Pinchbeck by a score of 8-4.

In singles action, the Tigers’ Alvarez dropped a three-set match (6-7(2), 6-2, 6-2) to 67th-ranked Mojzis at flight three. At number four singles, Clemson’s Ioana Paun fell to Cline by a score of 6-4, 6-1, while Jayet lost a 6-3, 6-1 decision to Bairos at flight five.

#11 North Carolina 4, #16 Clemson 0 Singles 1. #19 Julie Coin (CU) vs. #13 Kate Pinchbeck (UNC), DNF 2. #106 Alix Lacelarie (CU) vs. #38 Marlene Mejia (UNC), DNF 3. #67 Aniela Mojzis (UNC) def. Daniela Alvarez (CU), 6-7(2), 6-2, 6-2 4. Kendall Cline (UNC) def. Ioana Paun (CU), 6-4, 6-1 5. Lee Bairos (UNC) def. Laurence Jayet (CU), 6-3, 6-1 6. Anna Dolinska (CU) vs. Tanja Markovic (UNC), DNF

Doubles 1. #16 Cline/Mojzis (UNC) def. #27 Coin/Jayet (CU), 8-3 2. #48 Alvarez/Lacelarie (CU) def. Bairos/Mejia (UNC), 8-1 3. Bunn/Pinchbeck (UNC) def. Dolinska/Richele LeSaldo (CU), 8-4